Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
TBH, you might be dealing with a faulty GPU if you're visibly seeing graphics distortion and such prior to the crashes.

My game was running fine at a smooth 60 FPS prior to any of the crashes without any visual weirdness going on which made me refuse to believe it was the GPU at fault. It also always occurred in extremely low stress situations with scarcely any players around, so it had nothing to do with GPU load, either. I even stress tested the GPU for several minutes using Furmark and it had no issues, so I knew it had to be a driver conflict of some sort.

EDIT: I've now been playing for close to six hours with no crashes, so I feel safe to say I've resolved the issue. It definitely would not hurt to make sure your motherboard drivers are up to date and to do some research to see what Nvidia drivers are stable on whatever Windows update version you're using. Running tests on your GPU and RAM to ensure they aren't failing is also a good idea.
See the problem is, I'd believe that more easily except FF14 is the only thing it has ever has issue with? And it's relatively new. \:
But as I said in the OP, I'm not deeply tech savvy, so, insert a shrug here, hah.

But thank you, I'll look into all of that!!